Minor Criticism

Rating: 9/10 (23 July 2005)

The movie over all was excellent, but it's downfall was the minor details that made some scenes unbelievable. One scene in particular, a scene quite similar to the highway scene in Bad Boys II, was when Lincoln 6 Echo (Ewan McGregor) and Jordan 2 Delta (Scarlett Johansson) were on the back of a semi truck pushing off metal dumbbell looking objects that must have weighed 2 tons each while the driver of the truck remained completely oblivious. Unless the cabin of the semi truck is soundproof and had no rear view mirrors I would understand why the driver wouldn't even stop to consider the significant damage brought onto the highway and it's many victims caught in the middle, but nowhere in the film does it even mention or give us the slightest innuendo that it just might be soundproof. In fact, the whole idea of the movie is completely unbelievable. Would it really be possible for a clone who was "born" and raised as a clone and knew of nothing else except for what has been taught to question his existence and eventually find out what he is and then liberate an entire clone colony to discovering the truth? I mean seriously, 14 years from now with all this new sweet technology we still haven't managed to put security cameras or at least a guard in front of the most vital parts of a clone colony, considering the idea that we have a clone colony (i.e. the hologram room that contained the machinery that blocked out what the true outside looked like with beautiful images of butterflies and flowers and oceans, etc.) And above all, how do clones know how to mate when they were never introduced to the whole mating process? Other than that it was the most kick a** movie I've seen this summer.